Annotated Finnegans Wake (with Wakepedia): p24

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Friday, September 5, 2014

FW 1.69e --there wouldn't be a story--

1.69a: O foenix culprit! Ex nickylow malo comes mickelmassed bonum. Hill, rill, ones in company...
1.69b: Quarry silex, Homfrie Noanswa! Undy gentian festyknees, Livia Noanswa! Wolkencap is on him...
1.69c: She he she ho she ha to la. Hairfluke, if he could bad twig her! Impalpabunt, he abhears...
1.69d: Landloughed by his neaghboormistress and perpetrified in his offsprung, sabes and suckers...
1.69e: there would not be a holey spier on the town nor a vestal flouting in the dock, nay to make plein...

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FDV: "there would not be a spier on the town or a vestal in the dock, no, nor a you nor an eye {?wilbud to play ?catch ?clash} in nilbud new a'tall and noddy hint to the convaynience." →
"there would not be a spier on the town or a vestal in the dock, no, nor a yew nor an eye to play cash cash in ~~old~~ nilbud by swamplight nor a'toole a'tall a'tall and noddy hint to the convaynience."
('wilbud in nilbud'?)

there would not be a holey spier on the town nor a vestal flouting in the dock,

holy spire
spying through holes, i.e. voyeur

town/dock = city and river

slang vestal: prostitute
Vestal virgins

vessel floating
flaunting

dock = witness stand at trial

nay, to make plein avowels, nor a yew nor an eye

plain avowals

French slang: plein: drunk
French à plein voiles: in full sail

vowels: u, i
you, I

IOU?

to play cashcash in Novo Nilbud by swamplight

French cache-cache: hide and seek

Latin novo: new

French Nil: Nile (ie, source of)

Dublin (backwards)
cf 620.03: "second to nill, Budd!"

Letters II.192: 13Nov06 to Stannie re 'Clay': "The meaning of Dublin by Lamplight Laundry? That is the name of the laundry at Ballsbridge, of which the story treats. It is run by a society of Protestant spinsters, widows, and childless women — I expect — as a Magdalen's home. The phrase Dublin by Lamplight means that Dublin by lamplight is a wicked place full of wicked and lost women whom a kindly committee gathers together for the good work of washing my dirty shirts. I like the phrase because 'it is a gentle way of putting it'." (Maria in 'Clay' works there)

nor a'toole o'tall o'tall and noddy hint to the convaynience.

A/O

Anglo-Irish phrase at all, at all
U417: "ELLEN BLOOM... Sacred Heart of Mary, where were you at all, at all?"

St Laurence O'Toole

and not a
naughty

hint by way of a nod

Anglo-Irish accent: convaynience: convenience
colloquial convenience: privy, water-closet
conveyance

discreetly indicating the way to a wc, maybe for sex?

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

FW 1.70a --HCE's great deeds--

1.70a: He dug in and dug out by the skill of his tilth for himself and all belonging to him...
1.70b: Unfru-Chikda-Uru-Wukru and begad he did, our ancestor most worshipful, till he thought...
1.70c: And will again if so be sooth by elder to his youngers shall be said. Have you whines...
1.71: Anam muck an dhoul! Did ye drink me doornail?

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FDV: "He sweated his crowd and urned his dead and made louse for us" →
"He sweated his crew in {beneath} the auspice for the living and he urned his dead and he made louse for us & delivered us to boll weevils amain"

synopsis: the mighty liberator's deeds — he revives

He dug in and dug out by the skill of his tilth

dig in = eat, create defensive position

dig himself out = solve problem
dugout = canoe; shelter (eg baseball)

phrase by the skin of his teeth
Genesis 3:19: 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread'

tilth = tilled soil

for himself and all belonging to him

'with all belonging to X' phrase

and he sweated his crew beneath his auspice for the living

sweaty brow
sweating work crew
crewcut? (1920s)

beneath auspices (Vico)

Hospice for the Dying, Dublin

and he urned his dread, that dragon volant,

urned: deposited ashes in an urn

earned his bread

dead

French dragon volant: a sort of cannon [cite]
literally 'flying dragon' (heraldry)
flying dragon: in alchemy, the substance resulting from the union of mercury and sulphur, which when kindled results in fire and poisonous vapor

'The Room in the Dragon Volant' by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [wiki] novella about premature burial [etext]

and he made louse for us and delivered us to boll weevils amain,

laws
made house
lice, weevils = vermin

Lord's Prayer: 'and deliver us from evil'

boll weevil: a pest of cotton bolls
all evils

(no comma?)

archaic amain: in full force, without delay
amen

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FW 1.70b --HCE's ambivalence--

Castletown House, County Kildare, was said to have a window for each day of the year (see p10) cf "earsend to earsend"

phrase blushing from ear to ear (more often 'smiling')

1Kings 19:19: 'Elisha the son of Shaphat... and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him' (as a sign of succession)

fdv: "till his earsend to earsend"
year's end (December)
send
thousand?

And would again could whispring grassies wake him.

whispering grasses
wisp
spring

grassy
grasses
whispering gases = Bloom's fart?

And may again when the fiery bird disembers.

May, December

phoenix rising from ashes

dissembles
embers
disinters
disembarks

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FW 1.70c, 1.71 --the cycle goes round--

1.70a: He dug in and dug out by the skill of his tilth for himself and all belonging to him...
1.70b: Unfru-Chikda-Uru-Wukru and begad he did, our ancestor most worshipful, till he thought...
1.70c: And will again if so be sooth by elder to his youngers shall be said. Have you whines...
1.71: Anam muck an dhoul! Did ye drink me doornail?

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FDV: "Anam a dhoul! did ye drink me dead?" →
"Anam a dhoul! Did ye drink me dead?"
(maybe no "!" first?)

And will again if so be sooth by elder to his youngers shall be said.

(poetic rhythm? 01010101 0111010111)

cf U311: "they might, if so be it might be, bring once more"
U384: "if so be their constructions"
'if so be that' phrase

archaic sooth: truthfully, truly

German Jünger: disciple

Have you whines for my wedding, did you bring bride and bedding,

wines
winding sheet?
complaints

an arranged marriage for the corpse??

will you whoop for my deading is a? Wake!

maybe Ibsen: 'When We Dead Awaken' ?

darling??

cf? 499.29: "Wasting war and? Watch!"
cf? 607.12: "whenas it is a. Watch!"

Usqueadbaugham!

AngloIrish usquebaugh: whiskey (literally 'water of life')
Latin usque ad mortem: even unto death
499.31: "Usque! Usque! Usque! Lignum in . . ."

longshot: ad... am = Adam?

Latin bacam: grape, berry

Anam muck an dhoul!

song Finnegan's Wake

Anglo-Irish thanam o'n dhoul: your souls from the devil! (from Irish t'anam o'n diabhl)

Irish anam: soul

Irish muc: pig (so, 'your pigsoul to the devil'??)
Mick/Nick (mick, devil-- 'your devilsoul to the devil'??)

Did ye drink me doornail?

did ye think me dead?

phrase dead as a doornail

maybe Irish deoch an dorais: 'drink of the door' = parting drink (but why would he be asking about it?)

drink him under the table

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FW 1.72a --dissuading HCE from waking--

1.72a: Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension...
1.72b: Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cottericks' donkey with his shoe hanging...
1.72c: but let your ghost have no grievance. You're better off, sir, where you are...
1.72d: and have all you want, pouch, gloves, flask, bricket, kerchief, ring and amberulla...
1.72e: And it isn't our spittle we'll stint you of, is it, druids? Not shabbty little imagettes, ...
1.72f: Poppypap's a passport out. And honey is the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax...
1.72g: Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan Lalors piped you overborder...
1.72h: And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat on high is the mark of your manument...
1.72i: and when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses you showed our labourlasses...
1.72k: He's duddandgunne now and we're apter finding the sores of his sedeq but peace to his great limbs...
1.72l: No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king. That you could fell an elmstree...
1.72m: If you was hogglebully itself and most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was your like...
1.72n: But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him...
1.72o: So may the priest of seven worms and scalding tayboil, Papa Vestray, come never anear you...
1.72p: Your heart is in the system of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copricapron...
1.72q: The loamsome roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe! Be not unrested!...
1.72r: For we have performed upon thee, thou abramanation, who comest ever without being invoked...

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FDV: "Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir! And take your laysure and don't be walking abroad, sir." →
"Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir! And take your laysure and don't be walking abroad. Sure, you'd only lose yourself the way the roads are {that} winding now and wet your feet, maybe."

synopsis: convincing him to stay dead — performing rites to keep him dead

Now, be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir.

addressing the dead person

Anglo-Irish accent: aisy: easy

not an Irish name: the only Finnimore in the 1901 census was a 21yo barman in Cork

go and sin no more

below: "Aisy now, you decent man..."

And take your laysure like a god on pension and don't be walking abroad.

AngloIrish accent: laysure: leisure

Herold: La Vie du Bouddha 60: Buddha describing his horse, Kanthaka (French) 'the horse is strong and fast like a God'

Sure, you'd only lose yourself in Healiopolis now the way your roads in Kapelavaster are that winding there

the phoenix was burned at Heliopolis (Greek name of Annu, capital of the 13th nome of Lower Egypt)

when Tim Healy was Governor-General of the Irish Free State (1922-28), Dubliners called the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park 'Healiopolis'

things have changed

Buddha was born in Kapilavastu
Irish capall a mhaistir: his master's horse
Chapelizod?
Italian il paese di Vattelapesca: Nowhere Land (imaginary country of Italian fables)

fdv: "the way the roads are winding now" (the way things are going)

'that winding' = so very winding

after the calvary, the North Umbrian and the Fivs Barrow and Waddlings Raid and the Bower Moore,

Calvary: location of Jesus's crucifixion

cardinal points?

Northumbrian
Northumberland Road, Dublin

Phibsborough: district of Dublin
fives
barrow = burial mound

Watling Street, Dublin (in one version of song Finnegan's Wake, Finnegan lives there)
Watling Street: Roman road in England

Irish sráid: street

Irish bóthar mór: main road, big road

Moore Street, Dublin

cf Dudley White, U242?

and wet your feet maybe with the foggy dew's abroad.

'get your feet wet' = take first steps in new field

song The Foggy Dew
[♬ the foggy dew]

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FW 1.72b --living with death--

or a slut snoring with an impure infant on a bench.

slang impure: whore

cf Hogarth

'Twould turn you against life, so 'twould.

phrase associated with Nietzsche?

And the weather's that mean too!

(searches for 'mean weather' give 'average' not 'unkind')

To part from Devlin is hard, as Nugent knew,

Dublin
(life)

Gerald Nugent (16thC Gaelic poet): Ode Written on Leaving Ireland: 'From thee, sweet Delvin, must I part'

to leave the clean tanglesome one lushier than its neighbour enfranchisable fields.

parting is hard because the vegetation is entangling

each-one-lusher-than-the-last?

enfranchise = to give the vote, or to free from slavery
French en franchise: duty free
French infranchissable: impassable

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FW 1.72c --HCE adapts to death--

1.72a: Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension...
1.72b: Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cottericks' donkey with his shoe hanging...
1.72c: but let your ghost have no grievance. You're better off, sir, where you are...
1.72d: and have all you want, pouch, gloves, flask, bricket, kerchief, ring and amberulla...
1.72e: And it isn't our spittle we'll stint you of, is it, druids? Not shabbty little imagettes, ...
1.72f: Poppypap's a passport out. And honey is the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax...
1.72g: Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan Lalors piped you overborder...
1.72h: And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat on high is the mark of your manument...
1.72i: and when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses you showed our labourlasses...
1.72k: He's duddandgunne now and we're apter finding the sores of his sedeq but peace to his great limbs...
1.72l: No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king. That you could fell an elmstree...
1.72m: If you was hogglebully itself and most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was your like...
1.72n: But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him...
1.72o: So may the priest of seven worms and scalding tayboil, Papa Vestray, come never anear you...
1.72p: Your heart is in the system of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copricapron...
1.72q: The loamsome roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe! Be not unrested!...
1.72r: For we have performed upon thee, thou abramanation, who comest ever without being invoked...

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FDV: "You're better off, sir, where you have all you want"

But let your ghost have no grievance.

Huck Finn 1: 'a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave and has to go about that way every night grieving'

You're better off, sir, where you are,

better stay dead

primesigned in the full of your dress, bloodeagle waistcoat and all,

Italian primo signatio: first signing

prime-signing: in the 10thC, prime-signing meant marking men with the sign of the cross, permitting their association with both Vikings and Christians

blood eagle: a method of execution mentioned in the Norse sagas, whereby the victim was sliced open along the spine, his ribs broken, and his lungs pulled out and spread wing-like across his back

doubtful:
German Blutegel: leech

remembering your shapes and sizes, on the pillow of your babycurls,

after enlightenment, Buddha learned of his past lives

remembering how as a small child he learned the words for shapes and sizes

cf? Muddest1: "Anyhow he was always fond of cardinals. Always would he {be} reciting them by heart so as to know the tenners thumbs down, ace, deuce, tricks, quarts, quims and on the other hand, sexes, suppers, oglers, novels and dices."

(shouldn't his babycurls rest on, eg, the pillow of his mother's breast?)

under your sycamore by the keld water

VI.B32.161: "Osiris buried ?sycomore ?grove"

Budge: The Book of the Dead (pamphlet)16: 'By some means or other Set did contrive to kill Osiris... Isis, accompanied by her sister Nephthys... rescued the body of her lord... They then laid the body in a tomb, and a sycamore tree grew round it and flourished over the grave'

keld = covered by a caul
cold
quelled

where the Tory's clay will scare the varmints,

Tory Island off Irish coast; it was said that rats cannot live there and that mainlanders used earth from the island against rat infestations [map]

Dialect varmint: vermin (Huck Finn)

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FW 1.72d --HCE well-served after death--

whiskey flask

bricket, kerchief, ring and amberulla,

French briquet: infantry sabre of the Napoleonic Wars [wiki]
or cf Haines' tinderbox? U20
charcoal briquettes date back c1890

cf Stephen's snotrag, Citizen's facecloth, HCE's kerchief

cf Leary's maledictive ring [B&P1]

umbrella
cf? U60: amberoid necklace

the whole treasure of the pyre,

'Odin ordained that the dead should be burnt, and that everything that had been theirs should be carried to the pyre'

in the land of souls with Homin

"land of souls" generic translation of afterlife in many cultures

song Groves of Blarney [lyrics] ♬ 'But were I Homer, or Nebuchadnezzar, 'Tis in every feature I would make it shine' (Homer via words, Neb. via monuments)

homing?
homine = (Latin) human
omen?
homonym??
hominy

Homin Baroke?

and Broin Baroke and pole ole Lonan

Brian Boru
going broke?
brain broke??
bruin baroque???

"bricket... Baroke"

Broin and Lonan = Browne/Nolan

pole ole = poor old
141.27 "Answer: Pore ole Joe!" ♬
254.24: "it's old Joe"
hobo's pole with bindle
Huck Finn's pole to steer raft

St Lonan: a chieftain (nephew?) converted by St Patrick
parish on the Isle of Man [info]
Onan ('poor' because disgraced)

and Nobucketnozzler and the Guinnghis Khan.

drinking beer straight from the tap?
Genghis Khan
Guinness

five names, five eras, five senses??: Homer, Brian Boru, St Lonan, Nebuchadnezzar, Genghis Khan
plus HCE = 6?

And we'll be coming here, the ombre players,

ombre: 18thC card game for three people [wiki] pronounced 'umber'

Italian ombre: shadows, ghosts

maybe his old cardgame buddies? (it sounds spooky though)
3 players - 1 gone = only 2 left

to rake your gravel and bringing you presents, won't we, fenians?

any well-maintained cemetery will have gravel paths that need occasional raking... right?

gravel/grave'gravely
cf U101: "The metal wheels ground the gravel with a sharp grating cry"

Fenians: a revolutionary brotherhood of the 1860s, but the name was also erroneously applied to the Fianna, Finn's army (why no cap?)

cf U108: "Let us go round by the chief's grave, Hynes said. We have time."

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